CLOTH SEAL 510106

Description: A seemingly complete post-medieval lead-alloy cloth seal of mid/late 17th-century date. The disc is a four-disc alnage/subsidy seal from the county of Yorkshire. All four discs are sub-circular, with the outer discs smaller protrusions of the inner ones rather than properly defined and separated circles. Discs 1 and 4 are seemingly plain with the integral stud from Disc 1 being hammered over Disc 4 in a crude L shape. Disc 3 bears a large initial 'K' in an inner circle around which the legend '* COMIT . YORKE' ('county of Yorkshire'). For another Yorkshire seal apparently of the same series see YORYM-32E807 on this database (Paul Cannon pers. comm. 4th July 2012). This reads '* CO[....] [....]ORK' but in the centre is instead a letter 'D'. The 'K' on this seal may refer to kersey, a cheap woollen cloth produced in Yorkshire between the 1660s and 1680s (Egan 1994, 75). Disc 2 is stamped with a crowned lion statant guardant. The stamps are at about 10 o'clock to each other on the joined seal. The object has slightly ragged edges and has been bent slightly in profile.

Date: 1660 - 1685

Object type: CLOTH SEAL

Last import: August 15, 2017